Software Engineer (Contract, Argentina)

Greenhouse; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Greenhouse is seeking an experienced software engineer for a roughly 12-month independent contractor engagement, supporting Talent Matching and related employer-facing experiences. You’ll work across the stack to build product capabilities, focusing on OpenSearch/Elasticsearch and practical AI applications to improve search relevance and matching quality.

The role requires 5+ years of production code experience, strong Ruby, Java or Python skills (Ruby on Rails preferred), and solid React

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production code experience.
• Ruby, C#, Java, or Python; Ruby on Rails preferred.
• Strong JavaScript or TypeScript, with React.
• Full-stack across backend APIs, data modeling, and modern frontend.
• OpenSearch or Elasticsearch in production with indexing and relevance tuning.
• Experience with search, ranking, or matching systems.
• Practical AI/ML techniques in production (embeddings, semantic search).
• Experience collaborating with Product and Design in ambiguous problems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers to define requirements and build product experiences from conception through delivery.
• Build and improve full-stack experiences for Talent Matching, Talent Rediscovery, and related talent discovery workflows.
• Design and ship search-backed capabilities using OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including indexing, query design, relevance tuning, ranking, and semantic retrieval.
• Develop matching systems that combine keyword, structured, semantic, and AI/ML signals to improve match quality.
• Partner with Applied ML and cross-functional engineering teams to evaluate trade-offs across relevance, latency, reliability, infrastructure cost, and user trust.
• Build evaluation, observability, testing, and feedback mechanisms to continuously improve matching quality.
• Develop clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable production code for core services.
• Contribute to code reviews and engineering practices.

Job description

Our mission at Greenhouse is to make hiring work for everyone – so we go to great lengths to hire great people because we believe that they’re the foundation of our success. At Greenhouse, you’ll join a team that collaborates purposefully, fosters inclusivity, and communicates with transparency and accountability so we can achieve our mission.

Join us to do the best work of your career, solving meaningful problems with remarkable teams.

This is an independent contractor engagement in Argentina. Deel will serve as Contractor of Record and will contract with and pay the independent contractor. The independent contractor will provide services to Greenhouse on a non-exclusive basis, may provide services to other clients, and will be responsible for determining the manner and means of performing the services, subject to the applicable statement of work and agreed deliverables. This engagement is not an employment relationship with Greenhouse. No employment relationship, social benefits, or labor entitlements under Argentine Law 20,744 are created by this engagement.

Through this arrangement, Deel is hiring an independent contractor to provide services to the Employer Experience and Talent Discovery Team. This team builds the experiences and signals that help employers find the right talent faster, while creating the foundation for a trusted talent discovery ecosystem.

This role will support the development and maintenance of the Company’s web-based applications as part of an approximately 12-month engagement. In this role, you’ll contribute to Talent Matching, Talent Rediscovery, and related employer-facing experiences. You’ll work across the stack to build product capabilities and the search and matching systems behind them, with a particular focus on OpenSearch or Elasticsearch and practical applications of AI to matching, ranking, and search relevance.

This is a collaborative, execution-focused, non-exclusive engagement. You will spend the majority of your time in the code building features, fixing bugs, and ensuring our products remain stable and performant for users.

Contract & location details

• Contract duration: Approximately 12 months
• Engagement type: A non-exclusive contract role engaged through a Contractor of Record (COR) via Deel in Argentina
• Location: Argentina (remote)
• Working model: Collaboration with a distributed, US & Canada-based team with reasonable availability for coordination with Greenhouse stakeholders

Who will love this job

• A collaborative partner - you share your knowledge and expertise, work effectively with others, and contribute to successful project outcomes
• An adaptable contributor - you adjust quickly to changing needs and stay effective in dynamic environments
• A pragmatic architect - you evaluate trade-offs between performance, relevance, maintainability, and cost, choosing patterns that simplify complexity for the long term
• A problem solver - you think about the bigger picture, connect the dots, and efficiently resolve technical and product challenges
• An excellent communicator - you explain technical processes clearly, including to non-engineers, and work well with Product, Design, Data, and Applied ML partners
• A search and matching builder - you enjoy turning complex retrieval and ranking problems into intuitive, trustworthy product experiences

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers to define requirements and build product experiences from conception through delivery
• Build and improve full-stack experiences for Talent Matching, Talent Rediscovery, and related talent discovery workflows
• Design and ship search-backed capabilities using OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including indexing, query design, relevance tuning, ranking, and semantic retrieval
• Develop matching systems that combine keyword, structured, semantic, and AI/ML signals to improve match quality
• Partner with Applied ML and cross-functional engineering teams to evaluate trade-offs across relevance, latency, reliability, infrastructure cost, and user trust
• Build evaluation, observability, testing, and feedback mechanisms to continuously improve matching quality
• Develop clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable production code for core services
• Contribute to code reviews and engineering practices
• Additional projects as needed within the scope of the engagement

You should have

• 5+ years of experience writing production code
• Experience with Ruby, C#, Java, or Python; Ruby and Rails preferred
• Strong JavaScript or TypeScript fundamentals, including React
• Full-stack experience across backend systems, APIs, data modeling, and modern frontend development
• Deep experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch in production, including indexing, query design, relevance tuning, and performance trade-offs
• Experience building search, ranking, recommendation, or matching systems
• Practical experience applying AI or ML techniques in production, such as embeddings, semantic search, classification, or ranking
• Experience collaborating with Product and Design in ambiguous, user-facing problem spaces
• Experience with analytical databases, a plus
• Your own unique talents! Your background has given you a unique perspective and set of transferable skills that aren’t always in alignment with a given role - but those are qualities we value at Greenhouse. If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we still strongly encourage you to apply

Who we are

At Greenhouse, we live by our mission through using our own product to help us hire the right person for the job, every time. We’re committed to designing and responsibly using AI tools to transform how we work while keeping people at the center. We are a remote-first company and have shared office spaces in New York City and Ireland, and optional co-working spaces that give us flexibility to do our best work anywhere. We take an active role in our growth through a performance review program that’s committed to providing actionable feedback, and a bonus structure that rewards great performance. We believe that bringing together a variety of perspectives makes us a stronger company - and we nurture leaders who create an inclusive culture and invest into employee resource groups that celebrate our differences and life experiences. We’re proud to have built award-winning culture that’s been recognized as Fortune’s Best Places to Work and Inc.’s Best Workplaces multiple years in a row.

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Greenhouse Software is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, reach out to [e-mail].